We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
ABDULLAH IIToday more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
More Abdullah II Quotes
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I’m easily entertained.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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Is Israel going to continue to be “Fortress Israel”? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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